CEJA staff
Director
Reg Rumney
Reg Rumney is a journalist with extensive experience in business reporting,
with a career that has spanned both the Print and broadcast media.
From January 1996 until the end of 2000 he was the economics editor of SABC
News, and before that he was Business Editor of the Mail & Guardian
newspaper, where he was also Managing Editor and a director.
Most recently, as executive director of BusinessMap, he was responsible for
producing reports on foreign investment, black economic empowerment and
privatisation, and carried out research work in Africa on issues related to
the investment climate.
He is keenly interested in the role of business in society, having founded
the Mail & Guardian Investing in the Future Awards in 1990 to celebrate
excellence in South African corporate social responsibility.
He has served as an adjudicator on the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the
Year Awards and on the Appeal Panel of the Press Ombudsman.
He writes an occasional in-depth column called The Big Deal for the M&G on
BEE, focusing on equity transactions.
ThoughtLeader blog
Journalism school blog
Academic Development
Rob Brand
Robert Brand is a senior lecturer and the Pearson Chair of Economics Journalism at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He teaches economics journalism, media history, media economics, media law and ethics, and news writing, as well as supervising post-graduate research.
Before joining Rhodes University in November 2004, Brand worked as a financial journalist in the Johannesburg bureau of Bloomberg News, the global financial news provider. In his journalistic career, which started in 1989, he has also worked as a political correspondent, special writer and news editor at The Star in Johannesburg, and as a reporter at The Pretoria News, USA Today and the Irish Independent. He was the recipient of the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship in 1994, and the Independent News & Media Fellowship in 1998. He remains active as a freelance journalist, and is a member of the South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) and its Media Freedom sub-committee.
Brand obtained an MPhil (Journalism) cum laude, specialising in media ethics, from the University of Stellenbosch, in 2000. He also holds a BA (Law) from the University of Pretoria and a B-Honours (Journalism) cum laude from the University of Stellenbosch. He has recently completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (with distinction) at Rhodes University, and is registered for a PhD in the Department of Political and International Relations, Rhodes University. His provisional thesis title is: South Africa’s financial press 1959 – 1996: a social and political history. He is currently writing a textbook on media law for Juta & Co. and researching a paper on journalism education for an international conference in Paris, France in July.
Recent publications and conference papers include
* 2007. The numbers game: innumeracy in South Africa’s media and the implications for a developing democracy. In Pasadeos, Y. (Ed.) International dimensions of mass media research. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Mass Media and Communication in Athens, Greece. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research.
* 2007. South Africa. In Berger, G. (Ed). Media legislation in selected African countries. Paris: Unesco.
* 2006. Between privilege and subpoena: protecting confidential sources. Ecquid Novi. 27 (2) 133-135.
* 2006. Counting numbers: a numeracy audit of a South African daily newspaper. Rhodes Journalism Review, 2006.
* 2006. Book Review: Peter Kareithi & Nixon Kariithi. Untold stories. Economics and business journalism in Africa. Ecquid Novi. 27 (1).
* 1998. The Chris Hani Assassination. In Schutte, C., Liebenberg, I & Minnaar, A. The hidden hand. Covert operations in South Africa. Revised Edition. Pretoria: HSRC Press.
Administrative Assistant
Arther Chatora
Arther grew up in Mutare, Zimbabwe. He obtained a Bachelor of Journalism in 2007, specialising in New Media. He is currently reading for an MA in Media Studies. His broader research interests include issues on race and gender representation in the media, business/economics journalism and the impact of new media technologies on media and society.